According to Craig Harris of IGN on a recent Nintendo Voice Chat Podcast, Nintendo may be getting rid of having friend codes for each individual game on your system.
“I’ve heard rumors that friend codes are going away. It’s going to be a universal system code but its still going to be a code…There’s no online account, it’s just your system has the number.”
While its not the integration with Club Nintendo that we would like to see, its at least a step in the right direction.
Yep, that is what I heard on the podcast! Looking forward not having the stupid numbers and just the system number (still bad, better that friend code crap)!
My Wii is already linked with my Club Nintendo account, if they did this, all it would take is for them to link my DSi to my Club Nintendo account and it'd be perfect, as long as it's implemented right.
this is what i said like 3 years ago..
took a while,
but yay.
Using the system code would be awesome cuz you would automatically have all ur Wii friends on your game roster. (Ala MP3 Corruption rewards system)
They've already done this with Guitar Hero 5.
To clarify a little bit, they were speaking of this when they were discussing Nintendo's plans for their next console. They did not say that Friend Codes were going away for the Wii. Nintendo has put this system in place for this console generation and they are not going to abandon it. What IGN was saying is that the rumor is they will probably discard it for their next home console. I think Nintendo is content to let certain developers, like Vicarious Visions (Guitar Hero 5), just bypass it this generation.